Good evening.
Gregg Stobart is a correspondent for Goal.com and as has been highlighted on the COYS forum earlier today, there are some interesting interesting suggestions by him in relation to this transfer saga via Stobart’s Twitter account, @gstobart.
The situation was relatively straightforward. Adebayor and City have a contract whereby he is due (let’s say) £175k a week.
So if somebody else wants to take him the player has a choice to either take a pay cut (if City are willing to sell him) or for City to subsidise his salary, the latter happened while he was loaned to Spurs.
It was said by a few (yes, including me) that he had signed. He’d agreed terms with Spurs and this was communicated to City. City agreed to continue to subsidise him in order to lessen their load for a player that wasn’t ever going to kick a ball for them again.
So at this point, Adebayor is all set to formally join Spurs.
Then we get this line about Adebayor not wanting his charity to suffer. But his charity wouldn’t beacause he’d be in receipt of the same monies that he was at City and while on loan, the partially subsidised £175,000 a week.
Stobart claims that Adebayor has now announced that he wants the £4M transfer fee which was set to pass from Spurs to Manchester City …to instead be handed …directly to him.
Which would in effect result in Manchester City letting him go ‘on a free’.
I understand that footballers want to keep their financial affairs low key as not everyone ‘admires’ the vast amounts of cold hard cash that they earn in return for kicking a ball about.
But given that so many elements of this tale are in the public domain, now is the time for Adebayor to – as they say in certain parts of the North of England – shat or get off the pot. He should step out of the shadows and make a statement and put the record straight.
The Spurs end of this were sewn up a good few weeks ago. City hummed and harred but decided as I say to cut their losses.
I believe that Stobart could well have got the goods on Ade here. If so, this ‘playing the charity card’ stunt is in poor taste.
Harry is that a photo of you on your twitter account?
Are you from the CSA?
Student Loan :cop:
His goal tally was ok, but no player is bigger than our club. He’s just a greedy cn*t and we should look elsewhere. All that charity talk is a front to negotiate huge wages. He’s not OUR problem but City’s, so lets leave it that way. Think of it … we could pay two class forwards on his wages, so be clever Levy and walk away. COYS
I have to say I’m rather disappointed :-(
Not in Ade. He’s a footballer so thinks with his wallet. I thought this was going to be breaking news of his illicit affair with Usain Bolt.
Anyway, Levy can keep it on the backburner now with City likely to get more and more desperate to get shot and Ade likely to only want to come back to us. In the meantime we continue to trawl for strikers and if we net a good one (or two) then we’ll all be happy!
Tell him to sod off. Between ade who misses a lot of “sitters” and Defoe who is no good at timing his runs, offside more than onside, our goal tally should be twice what it was last year. We need somebody much more clinical than Ade and Defoe if we’re going to compete for a top 4 place and then do well in the CL.
What a joke his been payed a fortune he done well for us last year he made and scored a good few goals I’d love him back but what a greedy c££t! Llorente looks good value for money at the moment is near the end of his contract just please not carrol the greasy troll